Born into a Foreign Service family, Lisa Neher grew up in Turkey, Morocco, Viet Nam, and Syria. I attended high school at ACS Beirut, Lebanon and Walt Whitman HS in Bethesda MD. I graduated from Coe College, Cedar Rapids IA in French in 1973.
Both sides of my family have produced artists.My father’s father was an accomplished classical painter who ran an art studio during the Great Depression and painted murals in churches throughout the east and Midwest. My mother took up painting while overseas and worked in acrylics, specializing in light, airy paintings of living flowers.
I worked at the Embassy of France in Washington, D. C. for almost 15 years, as Assistant to the director of a two-man office representing the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the National Center for Scientific Research. In 1986, "Beneath a Summer Moon," a novel written in collaboration with Judith Child under the pseudonym ‘Julie Greene’, was published by Silhouette Romance. Also during my years at the Embassy, I translated two books into English. In 1995, The Children of Time; Causality, Entropy, Becoming, by Remy Lestienne, and, in 1997 his second book, The Creative Power of Chance, were published by the University of Illinois Press.
It was during my tenure at the Embassy that I rediscovered my love of the visual arts. Washington offers such a wonderful variety of art that inspiration is everywhere. In 1999, I decided that life is too precious to live it without passion. I left the Embassy and began painting full-time.
"As an artist, I find tremendous excitement and interest in everyday life. Every landscape, every arrangement of objects, every face, posture, expression is special – irreplaceable and unique. Communicating that is what I try to do when I paint".
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